Ticket printing and delivering machine



Jan. 30, 1923.

gnome (Y/llMzde 4 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

G. N. WADE.

TICKET PRINTING AND DELIVERING MACHINE.

ORIGINAL man JAN 19. 1920 Jan. 30, 1923.

c. N. WADE.

TICKET PRINTING AND DELIVERING MACHINE.

ORIGINAL FILED JAN. 19, 1920. 4 SHEETSSHEET 2.

Jan. 30, 1923.

C. N. WADE.

TICKET PRINTING AND DELIVERING MACHINE.

ORIGINAL FILED JAN. 19, 1920. 4 SHEETSSHEET 3.

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c. N. WADE. TICKET PRINTING AND DELIVERING MACHINE.

ORIGINAL FILED JAN. \9, 1920. 4 SHEET SSHEET 4- Patented Jan. 30, 1923.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TICKET PRINTING AND DELIVERING MACHINE.

Original application filed January 19, 1920, Serial No. 352,322. Dividedand this application filed September 16, 1920. Serial No. 410,718.

To all whom it mag concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES N. WADE, citizen of the United States,residing at Paterson, in the county of P'assaic and State of New Jersey,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ticket Printing andDelivering Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a ticket printing and delivering machinedesigned primarily to print and deliver, in rapid succession, differenttickets of such type as are used by public service organizations.

More particularly, the present invention has reference to mechanismwhereby the time of issue is printed upon each ticket.

I am, of co rse, aware that previous to my invention numerous deviceshave been produced for the purpose of recording on strips of paper orseparate cards, the time of issue -r pllm'hlng of the card or strip.However,

. the present application is a continuation in art of the applicationwhich eventuated in Letters Patent, No. 1,359,938, granted to meNovember 23, 1920, and is a division of my application, Serial No.352,322, filed in the lhiited States Patent Office, January 19, 1920,the subject matter of which is a ticket printing and delivering machine.

The invention provides a particularly efficient time clock and printingmechanism for producing upon a ticket the time of issue of the ticket,such mechanism having means for manually adjusting the same.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a ticket printing and deliveringmachine embodying the present invention,

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the mechanism of the machine intact butwith the easing removed,

Figure 3 is a side elevation of the time clock and its attendantprinting mechanism viewed from the opposite side shown in Figure 2,

Figure 4 is a vertical section on the line -i-4 of Figure 2,

Figure 5 is a vertical section on the line 55 of Figure 2,

Figure 6 is a perspective View of the mechanism for manually adjustingor setting the clock and its attendant printing mechanism.

Inasmuch as the complete machine is fully described in the originalapplication of which this is a division, only that portion of themachine relating to the time printing mechanism will be herein describedin detail. It may be briefly stated, however, that a roll of paper 12 issupported at one end of the machine and the ticket printed from thestrip forming the roll is delivered through an opening 222 in the casingat the opposite end of the machine. From the roll, the paper is carriedunder a guide roller 13 and thence through the machine over a verticallymovable platen 50, an inking ribbon 32 being arranged longitudinally ofthe machine between the paper and the printing members which are mountedin the frame of the machine above the inking ribbon. Each revolution ofa handle 79 actuates a train of gearing whereby tappets 53' and 54:raise the platen in opposition to springs 82 so that the paper and theinking ribbon will be pressed against the printing faces, the paperstrip being then fed forward and the printed tickets severed from thestrip by knives 26 and 27 the platen being meanwhile returned to itslower initial position. The printing faces are of such form andarrangement as to imprint upon the paper legends describing the issuingcorporation, firm, or person, the direction in which the transfer orticket may be used, the place of issue, and other essential data, aswell as the exact time of issue.

Forwardly of the central portion of the machine are two uprights 115which carry the time printing mechanism which comprises, in detail, abacking plate 117 and a front plate 118 between which is mounted a shaft119 carrying a spring drum 120 containing the coil spring 121 and havingthe peripheral gear teeth 122. The spring within the drum may be woundby means of a winding spindle 123 carrying a gear 124 which meshes witha gear 125 on the end of the shaft 119, said spindle 123 being supportedin the bracket 126, secured in place by screws 127 on the face of thefront plate 118, the spindle being further supported by a bracket 128 sothat the key engaging end 129 thereof may project through a suitablehole in the casing of the machine. The usual holding ratchet 122' isprovided to insure the proper application of the force of the spring121. The motion of the drum 120 due to the inertia of the spring 121 iscommunicated to a spindle 130 by a pinion 131 carried on said spindleand meshing with the teeth 122 of the drum, and the other end of saidspindle 130 carries a large gear 132 which, in turn, meshes with a gear133 on an escapement spindle 134 carrying the escapement wheel 135 withthe pawl 137 pivoted at 138 and pressed into engagement with the ratchetwheel 136 by a spring 139 so that movement of the escapement wheel inone direction is imparted to the spindle.

The shaft or spindle 134 has keyed thereto.

a cam 140, shaped as shown in Figure 4, which is arranged to actuate asecond es capement through the medium of the cam escapement arm 141bearing on said cam as the latter rotates in the direction of the arrowindicated in Figure 4. This arm 141 is drawn in toward the cam by a sring 142 connected with the arm at 143 an with the front plate 118 asindicated at 144. The arm is carried loosely upon a shaft 145 upon whichis secured the escapement wheel 146 engaged by the pawls 147, 148 and149. The pawl 149 also bears upon the periphery of the shaft engagingportion of the arm 141 and is adapted to enter the notch 150 therein, aspring 151 being provided to hold the pawl to the arm 141 and theescapement wheel 146. As the inner end of the arm is pressed down by thecam 140, the lower wall of the notch 150 rides under the pawl 149 andlifts it out of engagement with the escapement wheel, the edge of thearm 141 holding the pawl in released posit-ion until the free end of thearm drops off the high point of the cam and the arm returns to itsinitial position. The pawl 152 pivoted on the shaft engaging portion ofthearm 141 and actuated by a detent lever 153, mounted at 154 on saidarm 141, engages the pawl 148 to lift the same out of the notches of theescapement wheel 146 just before-the arm 141 leaves the point 155 of thecam 140 so that the escapement wheel 146 is allowed to move distancerequisite to shift elements of the time printing mechanism. The arm 141,of course, carries a pawl 141 which engages the escapement wheel andactuates the same to shift the time-printing discs as the arm drops fromthe high point to the low point of the cam. A member 152 is provided fordisengaging the pawls 148 and 149 to permit free movement of escapementwheel 146.

The escapements hereinbefore mentioned.-

control three printing disks 156, 157 and 158 respectively, mounted onthe shaft 134 between the two plates 117 and 118. The escapement wheel135 controls the printing disk or wheel 157 which carries printing facescorresponding to minutes of time and has sixty faces, while theescapement wheel 146 through the medium of two sets of gears 159 andv160 locked to the printing disks or wheels 156 and 158 controls themovement of these last named wheels. The wheel or disk 156 carrieshourly designations covering the twenty-four hours of the day while theprinting disk or wheel 158 carries A. M. and P. M. designations aligninwith the hourly designations of the wheel 156, and the escapement wheel146 1s, therefore, only actuated by the cam 140 on every sixty minuteperiod or lapse of time as indicated by a complete revolution of theescapement wheel 135 which is controlled in a manner to be hereinafterdescribed. This mechanism, as will be seen, constitutes time printingmeans which may be automatically governed by clock mechanism. 1

Time clock mec/zam'swa-Thc time clock mechanism consists of the usualclock mechanism having the plates 161, 162, separated by spacing means163, and having the usual main spring barrel 164 of a clock mechanism,the spring of which is wound through the medium of a spindle 165 adaptedto be engaged at 166 by a suitable key, this end of the said spindleprojecting through the front end of the casing. The hour and minutehands 167,168 respectively, are driven from the barrel 164 through theusual gear train 169 to indicate, at the front of the machine, the timewhich is to be printed on the transfer and such hands are geared back bypinions 170 and a shaft 171 secured at 1.72 to the member 173 carried bythe cam 140 so that any setting of the hands of the clock will also setthe time printing mecha nism, such printing mechanism being assembledwith the clock mechanism in such manner, to be hereinafter described,that the two correspond so that the time printed will be registered alsoon the face of the clock. The movement of the main spring barrel iscommunicated to a setting shaft 176, mounted in the frame plates 161 and162 near the upper ends thereof, by a pinion 177 slidable with saidsetting shaft for engagement with the gear 175 carried by the mainspring barrel, such pinion 177 being moved by the forked member 178carried on a support 179 and moved throught the time printing mechanism.hen the shaft v 176 is shifted forwardly to disengage the pinion 177from the spur 175, the pinion 181 on the front end of the shaft'iscaused to engage the pinion 182 on the lower end of a spindle 183 whichis provided with a knob 184 above the casing, said spindle 183 beingmounted in a bracket 185 at the front of the clock and in the top of thecasing and being held against dropping by engagement of the knob 184with the casing. l/Vhen the knob is rotated,the clock and thetime-printing mechanism are set. The setting shaft 176 carries a crankdisk 186 at its rear end which is provided with a crank pin 187 engagingin a slot 188 in the upper end of an escapement lever 189, which ispivoted upon the frame plate 118 as at 1.90 and carries the escapementend or tooth 191 engaging the escapement wheel 135 and has a pin 192engaging in the slotted end 193 of another escapement member 194 pivotedat 195, so that rotative movement of the setting shaft 176 is translatedinto rocking movement of the two escapement levers, thus permittingminute interval movements of the escapement wheel 135 which, in turn,are transmitted to the minute printing disk 157. In this manner themovements of the hands of the clock are registered on the time printingmechanism. The clock mecha- I11SII1 is supported by uprights 196 securedto the side of the machine frame and which carry the brackets 197 and128 for supporting the winding shafts 165 and 1.29 respectively. At thefront of the machine is a platform 198 carrying a counting mechanism 199which is adapted to register the total number of transfers issued by themachine and may be manually set by the knob 200 but is normallyautomatically actuated through the medium of the counter actuating shaft201, having secured thereto an arm 202 which is actuated to the downwardposition by a spring and has its lower end pivoted at 204 to a link 205,the lower end of'said link 205 being pivoted at 206 to the forward endof a lever 207- p-ivotally mounted on the frame at 208 and having itstail arm 200 engaged by a cam 210'mounted on the crank end 78 of theplaten cam shaft, so that each revolution of the crank 79 and its camshaft serves to raise the forward end of the lever 20? thereby elevatingthe link 205 and actuating the lever 202 to advance the countermechanism 199 one number. The arm 46 of the ink ribbon mechanism is alsopivoted at 210 to the same lever 207 and consequently the cam 210 alsoserves to elevate the arm 46 and actuate or advance the ribbon, thusproviding for the ribbon feed and at the same time providing forregistering or tallying the total number of transfers issued by themachine. If desired, the visible counting mechanism- 199 may be set toregister coincidently with the number printing mechanism of the transferprinting means so that the conductor will at all times be cognizant ofthe number of transfers issued and the number of the issuing transfer.

Exterior casi-ng.-The mechanism is enclosed in a case 212 which isprovided at the front with a sight opening 213 receiving the face of theclock so as to make the same visible and also is provided with sightopenings 214 and 215 for the counter mechanism and clock settingmechanism respectively. The lever 180 of the clock setting mechanism hasits knob end projecting through an opening 216 in the casing. Likewise,the side of the casing is suitably formedat 217 to permit the actuationof the dating printing means from the outside of the casing. The side218 of the casing is removable in any suitable manner. A lock 219 isfixed to the case at 220 to provide for holding the handle 79 in theupright position and looking means 221 is provided on the inside of thecasing side 218 to prevent the handle 79 from coming off until releasedby raising the locking member 221. The face of the casing is open at 222to permit the expulsion of the transfer.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. The combination of time-printing means, a clock mechanism including aspring drum, means including an escapement whereby the clock mechanismwill control the operation of the time-printing means, an endwisemovable setting shaft constantly in operative relation to the escapementand manually operable in one position, and means whereby in anotherposir tion the setting shaft will be operated by the spring drum.

2. The combination of an escapement shaft, means for rotating saidshaft, a timeprinting disc driven by said shaft, an escapement wheel onsaid shaft, an escapement lever pivoted adjacent said wheel and arrangedto engage the same, clock mechanism connected with said lever tooscillate the same, and a secondlever pivoted adjacent the escapementwheel and below the first escapement lever, said second lever beingprovided at one end with a tooth to engage the escapement wheel and atits opposite end having a pin and slot connection with the first lever.

3. The combination of an escapement shaft, means for rotating saidshaft, an escapement wheel on said shaft, a ratchet wheel on said shaftat the side of the escapement wheel, a clock controlled escapement levergoverning said escapement wheel,

a cam on said shaft, a second escapement shaft, an escapement wheel onsaid second escapement shaft, a lever mounted on said shaft to drivesaid escapementwheel and bearing at one end against the cam on the firstescapement shaft, upper and lower pawls engaging the escapement wheel onthe second shaft, the escapement lever being at its opposite end againstthe cam whereby provided with a notch to receive the workto actuate thetrip and release the lower ing end of the upper pawl, a'trip mountedpawl, and time-printing discs driven by 10 on the side of the esoapementlever and each escapement shaft.

engaging the lower pawl, a detent lever In testimony whereof I aflix mysignature. mounted on the side of the escapement lever and bearing atone end upon said trip and CHARLES N. WADE [1). 5.]

